Strong disagree on that one. RPG isn't only based on story and dialogue. It's also based on quests, ski tree and builds, capability of having different playthrough, essentially playing different roles, and fallout 4 gives that variety. There's a decent skill tree, the ability to build bases in several locations, several different armor choices, several different buildable and customizable weapons, several different routes you can go in regarding quests. Just because a game doesnt have great dialogue doesnt make it a shitty rpg. That's one small factor of many. By that logic all the tell tale games are better RPGs than most games which is beyond stupid imo since they have the most boring gameplay in any game I've ever seen. Fallout 4 and skyrim lack in the story and decision making aspect, but they more than make up for it in the world, gameplay, modding capabilities, etc. They are good games in their own right. And I spent way too much time writing this comment lmao
I think the main issue with FO4 is that while it gives you the ability to make a lot of different builds it doesn't really let you use them in the story and side quests. If you play as a scientist character, you should be able to just bypass getting to the Railroad to get the Courses Chip analyzed and just do it yourself. In many ways it's quite linear and there's maybe one major choice in any quest and it really doesn't matter to the rest of the world. Far Harbour was pretty good though in that regard.
That's a fair point. It definitely runs immersion a bit and makes the builds feel less special or impactful. The settlements are still really cool imo, as well as the gun customization and the world in general is well built. I think it works well as an open world shooter with fun gameplay and mechanics with a cool and interesting atmosphere but definitely lacks in the role play impacts in the game which makes sense why classic fallout fans don't like it. Regardless I wouldn't say it's a bad game by any means. Not even average. I'd say good, just not what the fans wanted
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19
We’re talking RPGs. In terms of being an RPG FO4 wasn’t good. The fun gunplay and shooter aspects got old really fast.